Improvement in portable fences



C. REITZ.

' PORTABLE FENCE.

No.178,801. IPE-'sentedA June 13, 1876.

N-PETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAFHER, WASMINGYON. D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT i OFFICE.'

CHRISTIAN REITZ, OF OOLET'A, ILLINOIS.

IMPRCVEMENT IN PORTABLE FENCES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 178,801, dated June 13, 1876; application led l January 19, 1876.

To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that l, CHRISTIAN REITZ, of Goleta, in the county of Whitesides and State of Illinois, have invented an Improvement in Portable Fences, of which the following is a specification My invention consists in the peculiar corner connection, all as more fully hereinafter explained. f

Figure 1 is a perspective view.` Figs. 2 and 3 are vertical sections at x Fig. 4 is a similar section at y y.

.In the drawing, each panel of my fenceis constructed, as represented, of three horizontal boards, A, nailed at the ends to a post, B, which rests upon theground. A wire, a, is stretched between the tops of saidpost to give the panel additional height. At the lefthand end of each a plate cast on one end, is horizontally secured to the top board A by nails or screws through said plate. The bolt is received by or inserted througha staple, c, driven into the top board at the right end of the adjoining panel, rst passing through two crossed braces, C C, whose lower ends are driven into the ground. The panel at the corner of the fence panel a bolt, b, having has its staple c replaced by a plate, c', with a holein it, which plate projects beyond the v panel to receive the bolt, which is secured by a'key through a slot in it, as seen in Fig. 1. The lower edges of the panel are secured by nailing a short piece of board, d, to and over the outer and inner sides of the adjacent posts B. lf additional rigidity be required at any point in the fence, a post, D, is driven into the ground close to a panel, against the other side ot which is placed a hatten-plate, D', secured at top and bottom to the post I) by a link, e,

which is secured in position: by a bolt at each y end, as shown.

What I claim as my invention is In a fence composed of panels secured together at their ends, the corner connection described, consisting of the panels A B (the bolt c secured to the top board of one, the plate c secured to the top board ot' the other panel) and the crossed braces G, all Vconstructed, arranged, and combined substantially as described and shown.

CHRISTIAN REITZ. Witnesses:

GEORGE WETZEL, JOHN TUMBLEsoN. 

